SPANISH
**Enrollment for the 2024-2025 School Year will begin May 1st, 2024**
Special 5% Discount for Early Registration through May 27th:
Full Year of 1.5 hour classes: $440 ($418 Early)
Full Year of 1 hour classes: $300 ($285 Early)
Spanish Course Descriptions 2024-2025
La Causerie Française offers Spanish classes from absolute beginner through advanced. Below you will find descriptions for all the levels and the material covered in each one. If you are not sure which class to take, contact us at the school and we can help you decide which class is the best fit for you.
*NEW!!: Multi-level conversation enhancement class starting Fall 2024!
*NEW!!: Thursday evening in-person classes starting Fall 2024!
Click on course name for detailed description:
Full classes: September 2024-May 2025
Open registration for the 2024-2025 school year will start May 1st.
Classes start the week of September 6th. Any class being held on Mondays will not start until September 9th since September 2th is Labor Day.
Class Descriptions
New Thursday Classes Listed Below:
Spanish 1-In Person
Instructor: TBD
Thursdays 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Class Description: This Spanish grammar course is intended for students who have never before studied Spanish or for those who have not used the language for so long that they need to start over.
Course Objective: Completion of the following chapters and topics
Preliminar:
· The Spanish alphabet and its pronunciation
· Greetings
· Months of the year & days of the week
· Colors
· Numbers: ordinal and cardinal;
· Fractions; divisions; multiplication; adding and subtracting
Grammar:
Unit # 17 Nouns and articles pg. 190
Unit # 18 Adjectives pg. 211
Unit # 19 Personal pronouns ( primera parte ) pg. 225
Unit # 3 SER and ESTAR pg. 27
Unit # 1 Present tense of regular verbs; irregular verbs & verbs with spelling change pg. 1
Unit # 2 Present Tense of verbs with stem change pg. 18
Unit # 26 Numbers pg. 308
Unit # 25 Interrogative and Exclamatory words pg. 301
Instruction: The instructor will use English for grammatical explanations, will incorporate Spanish into drills and other exercises, and will assign homework from the textbook and accompanying workbook.
Prerequisite: None
Book/Materials: Practice Makes Perfect, Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium 4th Edition
Spanish 2-In Person
Instructor: TBD
Thursdays 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Class Description: This grammar course is for students who have been introduced to the Spanish language but are still at a beginning level. Typically, students should have completed Spanish 1 at La Causerie or have taken several years of high-school Spanish, a couple of semesters of college Spanish, or have had an equivalent life experience (lived abroad, etc.) that gives them some pronunciation skills and a basic foundation of vocabulary.
Course Objective: Completion of the following chapters and topics
Grammar
Unit # 9 The progressive tense pg. 95
Unit # 23 Prepositions pg. 276
Unit # 24 Indefinite and Negative words and expressions pg. 293
Unit # 4 The preterit tense pg. 35
Unit # 5 The imperfect tense pg. 49
Unit # 6 Preterit and the Imperfect pg. 59
Unit # 7 The future ( 1st part. Talk about the 2 futures ) pg. 67
Instruction: The instructor will use English for grammatical explanations, will incorporate Spanish into drills and other exercises, and will assign homework.
Prerequisite: knowledge of the material covered in Spanish 1.
Book/Materials: Practice Makes Perfect, Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium 4th Edition
Friday Classes Listed Below:
Spanish 1-In Person
Instructor: Melanie Adams
Fridays 9:00 AM-10:25 AM
Class Description: This Spanish grammar course is intended for students who have never before studied Spanish or for those who have not used the language for so long that they need to start over.
Course Objective: Completion of the following chapters and topics
Preliminar:
· The Spanish alphabet and its pronunciation
· Greetings
· Months of the year & days of the week
· Colors
· Numbers: ordinal and cardinal;
· Fractions; divisions; multiplication; adding and subtracting
Grammar:
Unit # 17 Nouns and articles pg. 190
Unit # 18 Adjectives pg. 211
Unit # 19 Personal pronouns ( primera parte ) pg. 225
Unit # 3 SER and ESTAR pg. 27
Unit # 1 Present tense of regular verbs; irregular verbs & verbs with spelling change pg. 1
Unit # 2 Present Tense of verbs with stem change pg. 18
Unit # 26 Numbers pg. 308
Unit # 25 Interrogative and Exclamatory words pg. 301
Instruction: The instructor will use English for grammatical explanations, will incorporate Spanish into drills and other exercises, and will assign homework from the textbook and accompanying workbook.
Prerequisite: None
Book/Materials: Practice Makes Perfect, Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium 4th Edition
Spanish 1 & 2 Conversation Enhancement: 1 Hour
Instructor: Melanie Adams
Fridays 10:30 AM-11:25 AM
Class Description: This is a multilevel class designed to enhance and reinforce learning from the leveled classes. It is not a prerequisite to advance to the next level.
This is a conversation focused class. The instructor may use reading, writing, and other means to provide opportunities to build conversation skills.
Spanish 2-In Person
Instructor: Cristy Schmidt
Fridays 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Class Description: This grammar course is for students who have been introduced to the Spanish language but are still at a beginning level. Typically, students should have completed Spanish 1 at La Causerie or have taken several years of high-school Spanish, a couple of semesters of college Spanish, or have had an equivalent life experience (lived abroad, etc.) that gives them some pronunciation skills and a basic foundation of vocabulary.
Course Objective: Completion of the following chapters and topics
Grammar
Unit # 9 The progressive tense pg. 95
Unit # 23 Prepositions pg. 276
Unit # 24 Indefinite and Negative words and expressions pg. 293
Unit # 4 The preterit tense pg. 35
Unit # 5 The imperfect tense pg. 49
Unit # 6 Preterit and the Imperfect pg. 59
Unit # 7 The future ( 1st part. Talk about the 2 futures ) pg. 67
Instruction: The instructor will use English for grammatical explanations, will incorporate Spanish into drills and other exercises, and will assign homework.
Prerequisite: knowledge of the material covered in Spanish 1.
Book/Materials: Practice Makes Perfect, Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium 4th Edition
Spanish 3-In Person
Instructor: Irene Schmidt
Fridays 9:00 AM-10:25 AM
Class Description: This grammar course is for students who have learned the basic elements of the Spanish language. It builds on what has been learned in Spanish 1 and 2.
Course Objective: Completion of the following chapters and topics
Grammar
Unit # 8 Reflexive pg. 83
Unit # 19 Personal pronouns (Obj. directo y Obj. indirecto) pg. 237
Unit # 21 Possessive and Demonstrative Adjectives and pronouns pg. 268
Unit # 22 Adverbs pg. 282
Unit # 10 Present perfect and past perfect pg. 107
Unit # 11 Future perfect & conditional perfect pg. 119
Unit # 20 Relative pronouns pg. 258
Prerequisite: The material covered in Spanish 1 and 2.
Instruction: The instructor will speak in Spanish during most classroom activities, but when necessary, she will move briefly into English in order to make grammatical explanations clearer. Homework assignments will be from the book and the accompanying workbook.
Book/Materials: Practice Makes Perfect, Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium 4th Edition
Spanish 3 & 4 Conversation Enhancement: 1 Hour
Instructor: Irene Schmidt
Fridays 10:30 AM-11:25 AM
Class Description: This is a multilevel class designed to enhance and reinforce learning from the leveled classes. It is not a prerequisite to advance to the next level.
This is a conversation focused class. The instructor may use reading, writing, and other means to provide opportunities to build conversation skills.
Spanish 4-In Person
Instructor: Irene Schmidt
Fridays 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Class Description: This upper-level grammar course builds on the foundations of what students have learned in Spanish 1, 2, and 3. The instructor will conduct the class entirely in Spanish and will resort to English for grammatical explanations only when absolutely necessary. Students at this level are likely to experience new doors opening to them in terms of their abilities to read short story length material and to speak a number of coherent sentences in a row. The instructor will assign homework from the book.
Course Objective: Completion of the following chapters and topics
Grammar:
Unit # 12 The passive voice and passive constructions pg. 129
Unit # 16 The commands pg. 183
Unit # 13 The Subjunctive Mood pg. 137
Unit # 14 Subjunctive: adverb and relative clauses pg 155
Unit # 15 Subjunctive: the imperfect and the pluperfect subjunctive pg.170
Instruction: The instructor will conduct the class in Spanish and will resort to English only when necessary to make grammatical or usage points clear.
Prerequisite: Knowledge of the material in levels 1, 2, and 3
Book/Materials: Practice Makes Perfect, Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium 4th Edition
Spanish 5 (Previously titled: "Advanced Conversation using reading and Netflix series")
Instructor: Cristy Schmidt
Fridays: 9:00 AM-10:25 AM
Class Description: This advanced Spanish conversation course is aimed at furthering the development of students’ oral and listening skills through the discussion of topics presented by a carefully selected series in Netflix in Spanish, and a book. The instructor will conduct classroom sessions entirely in Spanish based on a series on Netflix or a book that inspires discussion and analysis of the topics.
Instruction: The instructor will conduct the class in Spanish. Often, grammatical and usage points come up during discussions, and the instructor may from time to time incorporate brief grammatical explanations in English into the conversation, but this is not a grammar class, and the focus will be on refining verbal-communication skills in Spanish.
Prerequisite: This advanced Spanish conversation course is designed and intended for students with good grammatical backgrounds, listening and speaking abilities.
Book/Materials: Complete Spanish Grammar ( Practice Makes Perfect )
Spanish Online Classes:
Spanish Conversation-Online
Instructor: Cristy Schmidt
Fridays 1:30 PM-2:55 PM
Class Description: This intermediate Spanish conversation course is aimed at furthering the development of students’ oral and listening skills through the discussion of topics presented by a carefully selected series of simple YouTube videos in Spanish. The instructor will conduct classroom sessions entirely in Spanish based on relatively short YouTube videos that inspire discussion and analysis of the topics. YouTube-video topics will come from a variety of authors and countries. The instructor as well will use the book: "Stories: Buenas Noches para Niñas rebeldes”, and use it for reading and discussion.
Prerequisite: Completion of Spanish 1, 2, and 3 or equivalent knowledge. This intermediate Spanish conversation course is designed and intended for students with good grammatical backgrounds but with limited listening and speaking abilities. We request that advanced students NOT take this course so that the instructor can adjust the vocabulary and speed of the language used in the class to levels appropriate for students who are striving to develop basic listening and speaking skills.
Instruction: The instructor will conduct the class in Spanish. Often, grammatical and usage points come up during discussions, and the instructor may from time to time incorporate brief grammatical explanations in English into the conversation, but this is not a grammar class, and the focus will be on refining verbal-communication skills in Spanish.
Book/Materials: Cuentos de buenas noches para niñas rebeldes “ Available on Amazon-click here.
Complete Spanish Grammar ( Practice Makes Perfect )